Simultaneous discoveries and the Medicine of the 20th century (part III) – The first tuberculostatics
Keywords:
tuberculosis, estreptomycin, PAS, isoniazid, Waksman, Schatz, Lehmann, simultaneous discoveriesAbstract
The author describes with great detail the chain of events that
led to the discovery of streptomycin, PAS and isoniazid between
1944 and 1952 and to the posterior changes in the area of
tuberculosis.
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